NewsRoom Digest: Top NZ News Items for November 26 Edition, 2015

Big news today includes the introduction of a bill to Parliament overhauling the Resource Management Act.

This edition of NewsRoom_Digest features 8 resourceful links of the day and the politics pulse from Thursday 26th November.

NEWSROOM_MONITOR

Noteworthy stories in the current news cycle include the introduction of a bill to Parliament overhauling the Resource Management Act and a report released by the State Services Commissioner showing an increase of women in senior leadership roles in the State sector.

POLITICS PULSE

Media releases issued from Parliament by political parties today included:

Links of the day have been a feature of NewsRoom_Digest since we first started production in August 2014.

EXPORTS & IMPORTS FALL: The trade deficit widened to $963 million in October 2015, compared with a deficit of $892 million for the same period last year, according to Statistics New Zealand. Read more: http://bit.ly/1PZSShr

GRADUATE EMPLOYABILITY RANKING: QS Quacquarelli Symonds are set to release the pilot edition of their new Graduate Employability Rankings. Designed to provide new insight into how universities are preparing their students for employment, they show Stanford University leading the way.The pilot edition will be available from:http://www.iu.qs.com

HOUSEHOLD INCOME: The Household Economic Survey (HES) measures annual income and housing expenses from a sample of New Zealand households. The survey was released today by Statistics New Zealand and is available at: http://bit.ly/1MSqOZ5

WEST COAST ECONOMIC STUDY: Opportunities for more investment, more jobs and better incomes for the West Coast will be the focus of a comprehensive economic study . An expression of interest to carry out the West Coast Regional Growth Study can be viewed here: https://www.gets.govt.nz/ExternalIndex.htm

And that’s our sampling of “news you can use” for Thursday 26th November.

Selwyn Manning, BCS (Hons.) MCS (Hons.) is an investigative political journalist with 23 years media experience. He specializes in reportage and analysis of socioeconomics, politics, foreign affairs, and security/intelligence issues.
Selwyn has extensive experience as a commentator and has provided live political analysis to a wide range of television and radio organizations broadcasting in New Zealand, Australia and globally including the BBC (Five Live, London) and BBC (World Service). He is currently a correspondent to Australia's FiveAA radio, and is a regular live-on-air panelist on Radio New Zealand's The Panel with broadcaster Jim Mora.